Forum / In a mood to read Ozick's critical writing, I read this:

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  Ann Bogle

  Jun 05, 07:41am

  http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/books/books-of-the-times-cynthia-ozick-on-the-holocaust-idolatry-and-loss.html

  Further articles about her in The New York Times:

  http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/cynthia_ozick/index.html

  Her quotations set to music at youtube:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGgY1t1wIlA

  This looks best for what I am seeking:

  http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2693/the-art-of-fiction-no-95-cynthia-ozick

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  Ann Bogle

  Jun 05, 08:23am

  Her typing her replies in The Paris Review Interview is especially endearing.

  One quotation from the Interview, among many striking, searing, blissing statements:

  "I’ve discussed 'revenge' with other writers, and discovered I’m not alone in facing the Medusa-like truth that one reason writers write—the pressure toward language aside, and language is always the first reason, and most of the time the only reason—one reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said—the words one didn’t have the strength or the ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one’s dignity or survival."

  The end of the Interview, that may be longer than average, is the vote, up in the air of history until then.

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  John Riley

  Jun 05, 09:49am

  Just read her introduction to "The Complete Stories of Isaac Babel." I've had to put the book down a few days before starting the stories in fear they won't match up to what she says about them.

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  David Ackley

  Jun 05, 11:19pm

  Good stuff.

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